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>> on "meet the press" david plouffe was asked by david gregory if politics had anything to do with the administration labeling the assault as terrorism? >> the president's challenger said the president failed to level with the american people and call this a terrorist attack because you had to be concerned about another terrorist attack from al qaeda in the middle east after the president said that al qaeda had been defeated. >> that's preposterous and offensive to say that. as information was received from the intelligence community, it was distributed this president's record on terrorism takes a back seat to no one. >> was this an intelligence failure? >> no this was a complex event. we're only talking a matter of weeks here. so as information was arrived at, as determinations were made that was shared with the mesh people. i think, again, the focus needs to be how do we make sure our facilities and ambassadors and personnel are secure going forward. >> and we have this morning some breaking news out of afghanistan. a spokesman for the u.s.-led coalition says at least 14 people inclu
>> on "meet the press" david plouffe was asked by david gregory if politics had anything to do with the administration labeling the assault as terrorism? >> the president's challenger said the president failed to level with the american people and call this a terrorist attack because you had to be concerned about another terrorist attack from al qaeda in the middle east after the president said that al qaeda had been defeated. >> that's preposterous and offensive to...
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axelrod and david plouffe and the chicago crowd. >> yeah. >> and they had the last word sort of with the president before he went into the ring, and whatever they advised him to do was not what the preparers thought they had prepared the president for. there's a certain amount of monday morning finger pointing going on inside the obama camp, and interestingly, that's something you didn't see at all in -- >> it's not a good sign. >> everything was so smooth in 2008. now you have a situation where there's a little bit of finger pointing going on. it will be greatly alleviated if joe biden can turn in a good performance on thursday. >> let's take a look at this, mr. mayor. go ahead, did you want to say something? >> go ahead. >> you can't refight the last fight. last wednesday was last wednesday. we can't debate the debate. let's move on. we have one this week. we have 30 days to go. you know, every day is not a spectacular day for any one of us in these professions that we have. president obama is the same president he was last tuesday, last wednesday, last thursday. moving this countr
axelrod and david plouffe and the chicago crowd. >> yeah. >> and they had the last word sort of with the president before he went into the ring, and whatever they advised him to do was not what the preparers thought they had prepared the president for. there's a certain amount of monday morning finger pointing going on inside the obama camp, and interestingly, that's something you didn't see at all in -- >> it's not a good sign. >> everything was so smooth in 2008. now...
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david plouffe walked it back. i understand nobody wants this to happen but by saying it do you think it messed up the negotiating stance of the democrats here? >> not in the least. i've heard from more republicans who are prepared to do what they think is reasonable, which is not what mitt romney is proposing. mind you, chuck, mitt romney has signed the grover norquist pledge not to raise any revenue. he doubled down on in in both debates. he said, i won't take 10-1, i won't ways revenue. that's the formula for gridlock. that is what stopped the super committee i served on from getting an agreement because they signed a pledge to l lobbyists -- >> sequester going to happen -- >> let me finish the thought. many republicans have come up to me and said, we've had enough of that pledge. we have to move forward. not mitt romney. he's running on the pledge but the republicans and the senate say -- >> they won't do it. >> they won't do it because you'd lose 3% to 4% of gdp, 000s of jobs rapidly. it would be disastrous fo
david plouffe walked it back. i understand nobody wants this to happen but by saying it do you think it messed up the negotiating stance of the democrats here? >> not in the least. i've heard from more republicans who are prepared to do what they think is reasonable, which is not what mitt romney is proposing. mind you, chuck, mitt romney has signed the grover norquist pledge not to raise any revenue. he doubled down on in in both debates. he said, i won't take 10-1, i won't ways revenue....
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we saw david plouffe with david gregory yesterday. what are the fair questions? >> it's fair to understand exactly what the threat assessment was before the attack and to understand what preparations were made and these are the kinds of questions that should be asked, the bipartisan senate foreign relations committee letter from late last week came out with that type of request and the intelligence community, the state department, they are certainly most interested in ensuring that nothing like this happens again. so that needs to be understood. apparently there was an effective rebuff to an attack in june by local forces. >> correct. >> that gave confidence to the americans. that may have been overconfidence. we'll have to see what happens. >> but based on the information available right now, you're saying it may have been overconfidence, it seems that at least the evidence is pointing to the fact that it was hence the reasons the americans are -- a part of the reason lives were lost. this -- the main question so many people have at this point, joel, is why wasn
we saw david plouffe with david gregory yesterday. what are the fair questions? >> it's fair to understand exactly what the threat assessment was before the attack and to understand what preparations were made and these are the kinds of questions that should be asked, the bipartisan senate foreign relations committee letter from late last week came out with that type of request and the intelligence community, the state department, they are certainly most interested in ensuring that...
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. >> as you can see and you heard it from david plouffe, he used the phrase "intelligence community" i think some six or seven times, seemed to put eight the hands of the intelligence kmunl community and then said there's not a problem with the community by the way. this morning american cross roads is out with a tough new internet video. take a look. >> what did president obama do the same day of a terror attack on american citizens? he campaigned in las vegas. then at the annual u.n. meeting where rogue nations are calling for a new world order, obama snubbed key allies and skipped meetings with world leaders so he could be on tv. >> so how much of the campaign is this going to be? the romney campaign is debating how forcefully to engage the libya issue. some are advising it's good to use as a stand-in for overall failures of the president. romney tries to do that in a wall street op-ed writing disturbing developments are sweeping across the greater middle east, these developments are not, as president obama says, mere bumps in the road. they are major issues that put our security
. >> as you can see and you heard it from david plouffe, he used the phrase "intelligence community" i think some six or seven times, seemed to put eight the hands of the intelligence kmunl community and then said there's not a problem with the community by the way. this morning american cross roads is out with a tough new internet video. take a look. >> what did president obama do the same day of a terror attack on american citizens? he campaigned in las vegas. then at...
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and then you had this exchange with david plouffe from the obama campaign after the debate. take a look. >> mr. plouffe, why didn't the president mention tonight that we have had 30 months of private sector job growth? that's a heck of a number considering the fact that there's been so much obstruction coming from the republicans, and even on that, the president seemed timid when it came to pointing out what he's been dealing with with republicans. and also the biggest story since the convention has been the 47%. none of this was mentioned tonight by the president. clear openings to put mitt romney on the defensive. why didn't he do that? >> well, first of all, on the 47%, that's an issue that just about 100% of the country knows about. >> and over the last 12 hours -- >> did you hear that? 100% of the country knows that 47% story. i don't believe that. when bush and cheney got in trouble, they went to their base. and president obama needs to go to his base. i don't mean to interrupt you, thomas, but there's a lot of emotion on the left today. and i think the president is as
and then you had this exchange with david plouffe from the obama campaign after the debate. take a look. >> mr. plouffe, why didn't the president mention tonight that we have had 30 months of private sector job growth? that's a heck of a number considering the fact that there's been so much obstruction coming from the republicans, and even on that, the president seemed timid when it came to pointing out what he's been dealing with with republicans. and also the biggest story since the...
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to that quote, here's what david plouffe said over the weekend. >> that is preposterous and really offensive to say that. once information was received, it was distributed. this record on terrorism takes a back seat to no one. >> is there a political danger in going after the president on this? does it look a little opportunistic in a situation where four americans are dead? >> well, we are seeing -- i think paul ryan is right. we're seeing the obama foreign policy dissolve in front of our eyes. we do have all hell breaking loose in the middle east. we have protests, people getting killed in afghanistan. all these situations. and obama promised that we would get out of these situations. he promised that things would be better if he were president. they seem to be getting worse. i think it's all fair. you have to talk about whether foreign policy is working and whether the president's economic policies are working. right now it seems neither are working. that's why we need to replace the president. >> maybe that's why. it raised eyebrows a couple days before the debate that the op-ed mitt rom
to that quote, here's what david plouffe said over the weekend. >> that is preposterous and really offensive to say that. once information was received, it was distributed. this record on terrorism takes a back seat to no one. >> is there a political danger in going after the president on this? does it look a little opportunistic in a situation where four americans are dead? >> well, we are seeing -- i think paul ryan is right. we're seeing the obama foreign policy dissolve in...
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we had david plouffe, who you used -- who used them really to pivot the campaign this morning on the daily rundown. take a look. >> the recession wasn't an accident. there were policies and reasons that contributed to it. and, you know, reckless wall street behavior, tax cuts for the wealthy unpaid for. these are the same policies mitt romney wants to return to. >> chris w 32 days to go until election day, how much of a fine line is the president's campaign walking when it comes to celebrating these numbers? obviously they want to pivot point off the debates and this could be that break, that moment where they can say, look, what we've done, it's working, and now nobody can criticize the president for being above 8% and the one-term proposition phrase they love to throw around. >> listen, it does a couple things. one, it kind of pops to some degree, to say the least, the balloon of momentum romney may have had coming out of that debate performance. at the end of the day the debate about this election is the economy. it's about jobs. and when you see over 5 million jobs being created,
we had david plouffe, who you used -- who used them really to pivot the campaign this morning on the daily rundown. take a look. >> the recession wasn't an accident. there were policies and reasons that contributed to it. and, you know, reckless wall street behavior, tax cuts for the wealthy unpaid for. these are the same policies mitt romney wants to return to. >> chris w 32 days to go until election day, how much of a fine line is the president's campaign walking when it comes to...
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plouffe last week after the presidential debate and see the sort of democratic buoyancy out of this, what everybody said going into this was the democrats were looking for something to have changed the momentum, to change the feeling in this race after a presidential race last week that so clearly was -- a presidential debate last week that was clearly won by mitt romney. democrats have been dejected. i think you see in chris van hollen, and i think in others as we talk to more people in the spin room and ahead in the next hour. that democrats probably feel like they got what they needed tonight. we have lots more ahead including reaction from the obama campaign specifically plus our favorite policy wonk ezra klein on what we heard from both sides tonight. there's a little truth telling we need too on both sides. this is msnbc's live coverage of the first presidential debate. [ man ] ring ring... progresso this reduced sodium soup says it may help lower cholesterol, how does it work? you just have to eat it as part of your heart healthy diet. step 1. eat the soup. all those veggies a
plouffe last week after the presidential debate and see the sort of democratic buoyancy out of this, what everybody said going into this was the democrats were looking for something to have changed the momentum, to change the feeling in this race after a presidential race last week that so clearly was -- a presidential debate last week that was clearly won by mitt romney. democrats have been dejected. i think you see in chris van hollen, and i think in others as we talk to more people in the...
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the davids, axelrod and plouffe and tom donilon and karen dunn. joining me is carol simpson the first female minority nod rate one of these head-to-heads and professor alan schroeder. he's a presidential historian and the author of "le debates 50 years of high risk tv. it's great to have you both here. carol line i want to start with you. what do you think we can expect this time around what the candidate will bring to the table for this third and final debate, where they will reach millions of americans. >> thomas i've been wrestling with this all morning trying to speculate what may happen tonight. we're not going to have the first debate where obama was asleep. we're not going to have the second debate where they were gladiators on the arena floor. tonight i don't have any idea. people are saying oh, they will be more somber and calmer and so on. bath i don't think we know. one thing i do suspect, however, is that it is going to veer away from foreign policy and get into domestic policy again. i talked to a man in my building as i was leaving t
the davids, axelrod and plouffe and tom donilon and karen dunn. joining me is carol simpson the first female minority nod rate one of these head-to-heads and professor alan schroeder. he's a presidential historian and the author of "le debates 50 years of high risk tv. it's great to have you both here. carol line i want to start with you. what do you think we can expect this time around what the candidate will bring to the table for this third and final debate, where they will reach...
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you saw david plouffe on "meet the press" still stumbling around, calling what happened an event and then a complex event. obviously, susan rice, the u.n. ambassador, coming under fire. peter king has said she should resign. do you agree with that? >> no, i don't. >> is that overstepping it? >> i think she was the messenger. she was the messenger. >> for people that aren't following this, what -- first of all, tell us what's offensive about what susan rice said five days afterwards. and then after that, can you talk about the briefing at the senate? because you have john kerry, actually, john kerry saying, you guys aren't telling us anything. >> yeah, the interesting thing was, first of all, the attack took over the place of many hours. there's a detailed description in many morning's "new york times." i'm not schilling for "the new york times." >> sure, you are. >> there's a detailed description. there was a long operation carried out by people with mortars, with rocket-propelled grenades, pretty accurate mortars. i mean, it was obvious, and intelligence people within 24 hours were
you saw david plouffe on "meet the press" still stumbling around, calling what happened an event and then a complex event. obviously, susan rice, the u.n. ambassador, coming under fire. peter king has said she should resign. do you agree with that? >> no, i don't. >> is that overstepping it? >> i think she was the messenger. she was the messenger. >> for people that aren't following this, what -- first of all, tell us what's offensive about what susan rice said...